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I was contacted by a member last week with the details of his very rare SC as he thought it might be of interest. Some of you will know that Porsche produce 'special' cars, from time to time, odd engine configurations turn up which can't be easily explained without getting the details from the original owner or Porsche A.G. However this car comes with it's log book showing the engine size, power in Kw, it's date of build etc.
The car I'm speaking of is the 3.1ltr SC, Gwyn Richardson's Petrol Blue (I think) 1980 sport Targa has the correct chassis and engine nos. for that batch of cars and was built around 15 Jan '80 and first registered on 25 Jan '80, the capacity is 3083cc and it develops 154Kw@5800rpm, this equates to around 210bhp. If it left the factory (Weissach) with that amount on the dyno you can bet your life soon afterwards it was developing 5-10 more. The car has travelled 300,000KM and is a left-hooker. The car will be sensationally quick as Gwen says even though the SC is not as light as previous 911s it is certainly lighter than the 911s that followed.
The SCRS was the fastest accelerating Porsche 911 bar none up until the early '90s but as the SC is not very well loved people seem to disregard that ultra rare of all SCs. (It was stripped out in 'true' early RS style a homologation special for the 954 rally car)
There about 100 of these 'Weissach specials' not the same as the Weissach Special Edition. SC customers collecting their cars could elect to take it straight to Weissach and have the 3.3 Turbo barrels and pistons fitted but as the stroke was different that's how the cc is created. As far as I know no other mod's were needed but Gwyn has mentioned since having a different injection fuel distributor fitted the car is peaky aroung 4,000 rpm where before it was smooth throughout the rev range, could it be that the 3.1 SC has a different fuel distributor, it might make sense. The car was born because some customers complained about the lack of bhp in their latest 911 especially when the previous 3.0 Carrera had 20bhp more. With hindsight it is clear that Fuhrmann deliberately detuned the SC so it couldn't compete with the new 'flagship' 928 but in reality if progress had been as usual with a 911 launch the 911SC would have probably rolled out of the factory with 210-220 bhp. So in response to the demand for more power if you were in the right place at the right time you could have a 3.1SC with more go than the stock SC.
One strange thing about Gwyn's car is that the cc is given as 3083cc yet other specs for this car put the cc at 3122cc near to the 3.2s 3163cc (indeed the SC and Carrera 3.2 share the same 95mm Nikasil barrels). If you want to read a little more about these rare SCs have a look at this site.
http://users.compaqnet.be/skyimages/porsche2/p911/SC/911sc31.html
The car I'm speaking of is the 3.1ltr SC, Gwyn Richardson's Petrol Blue (I think) 1980 sport Targa has the correct chassis and engine nos. for that batch of cars and was built around 15 Jan '80 and first registered on 25 Jan '80, the capacity is 3083cc and it develops 154Kw@5800rpm, this equates to around 210bhp. If it left the factory (Weissach) with that amount on the dyno you can bet your life soon afterwards it was developing 5-10 more. The car has travelled 300,000KM and is a left-hooker. The car will be sensationally quick as Gwen says even though the SC is not as light as previous 911s it is certainly lighter than the 911s that followed.
The SCRS was the fastest accelerating Porsche 911 bar none up until the early '90s but as the SC is not very well loved people seem to disregard that ultra rare of all SCs. (It was stripped out in 'true' early RS style a homologation special for the 954 rally car)
There about 100 of these 'Weissach specials' not the same as the Weissach Special Edition. SC customers collecting their cars could elect to take it straight to Weissach and have the 3.3 Turbo barrels and pistons fitted but as the stroke was different that's how the cc is created. As far as I know no other mod's were needed but Gwyn has mentioned since having a different injection fuel distributor fitted the car is peaky aroung 4,000 rpm where before it was smooth throughout the rev range, could it be that the 3.1 SC has a different fuel distributor, it might make sense. The car was born because some customers complained about the lack of bhp in their latest 911 especially when the previous 3.0 Carrera had 20bhp more. With hindsight it is clear that Fuhrmann deliberately detuned the SC so it couldn't compete with the new 'flagship' 928 but in reality if progress had been as usual with a 911 launch the 911SC would have probably rolled out of the factory with 210-220 bhp. So in response to the demand for more power if you were in the right place at the right time you could have a 3.1SC with more go than the stock SC.
One strange thing about Gwyn's car is that the cc is given as 3083cc yet other specs for this car put the cc at 3122cc near to the 3.2s 3163cc (indeed the SC and Carrera 3.2 share the same 95mm Nikasil barrels). If you want to read a little more about these rare SCs have a look at this site.
http://users.compaqnet.be/skyimages/porsche2/p911/SC/911sc31.html
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